Mad Men

Something very Fellini-esque about last night's episode. Don the nomad meets some Eurotrash nomads

 

Can't believe they're going to blow Roger away. Character is too well-cultivated . . . not to mention that he's the funniest of the suits, by ten lengths.

 

You nailed it. Quite beautiful.

 

Absolutely. When she was in that bikini I went "woah!"

 

I like the show, I do, but a lot of it is, at this point, utterly ridiculous. Betty's morphed into an alien, Don seems stuck in a bizarre Lynchian drama…the show is no longer depicting reality, if it ever was, but a twist on reality.

I don't necessarily mind that, but I kinda wish the show would admit it. This is like Kubrick trying to sell us that "Full Metal Jacket" was an accurate rendering of Vietnam. But there's more social commentary in two hours of Billy Wilder's "The Apartment" than there has been in two seasons of this. And as much as I like the talent (and odd, mesmerizing appearance) of Christina Hendricks, Joan, as a character, is beyond the pale.

Sadly, I think the makers of Mad Men intend it to be deadly serious - like a play on Ingmar Bergman or something. TV criticism sucks so hard in this day and age that many of its faults simply escape critics.

Honestly, HBO has to eat its words now, but I can see why they turned it down. It's another expensive, revisionist drama, like Deadwood, that bears hardly any resemblance to the actual events.

 

You would pan the Bozo Show because he didn't historically resemble a rodeo clown.

 

Anybody know why that was an uncredited role? It's not in the cast list for the episode.

 

I actually got her name off the AMC site.

 

Weird, the imdb episode credits don't list the part at all.

 

Good news - the show has been renewed.

Potential bad news - Matthew Weiner is not locked up to return (yet).

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117994192.html?categoryid=14&cs=1

 

Thought you guys might like this. Someone edited Don Draper's section of the Mad men page at wikipedia:

"In a shocking revelation during the October 19th episode, viewers learned that the true identity of Don Draper was actually none other than... Armin Tamzarian, a no-goodnick from Capital City."

And . . .the lady who plays Jane is quite purty.

 

Not to mention astonishingly-built.